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Out of Print What is the FBI ? How did it come into being ? What has it accomplished ? What are its powers? The FBI Story has been written by a Pulitzer prizewinner with the co-operation of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI for more than thirty years. It takes you behind the scenes and into the Federal Bureau of Investigation files to reveal the record of America's crusade against crime and subversion.
The book contains full accounts of the Black Tom explosion and other acts of sabotage which were the prelude to America's entrance into World War I; the case histories of the Wall Street Explosion and Palmer's " Red Raids " ; and the gangsters' rise to power in the roaring twenties, told through the stories of Dillinger and the "Lady in Red", Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine-Gun Kelly and Al Capone. Here, too, are the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Kansas City Massacre and many other cases which first placed the FBI in the forefront of the public's imagination.
The FBI Story is the story, too, of Pearl Harbour, the capture of the Japanese es-pionage messages, the German saboteurs' invasion of the United States and their capture, and other behind-the-scenes dra¬mas of World War II. The book tells of the FBI's secret operations in South and Central America and the experiences of its Special Intelligence Service (SIS). How the FBI tricked the Germans through double agent radio stations is a " stranger than fiction " story. You'll read of the FBI's role in combating post-war crime as Don Whitehead reports on the brutal kidnap-murder of little Bobby Greenlease and on the murder of a mother by her son high over a Colorado beet field, when a 'plane fell carrying passengers and crew to their death.
The fight against Communism in the United States, Smith Act prosecutions and the gathering of evidence which made these prosecutions possible are all portrayed. Also related are the cases of Hiss and Klaus Fuchs and the theft of the atomic secrets and the Rosenberg and Greenglass cases, which are revealed in detail.
